Disclaimer : I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. Curses.

Notes : This is a relatively AU story, yaoi and a bit of yuri. J/S, YY/Y, B/M, a little Mai/Sh. This story contains violence to a good degree. Would be picking up after Battle City basically, along those lines.

Summary : Semi-AU. It would seem Jonouchi will have a greater role to play in the resurfacing of the past memories, though it doesn't bode well for Yami. Violence, obsene language later, maybe lemon, depends. Yaoi, J/S, YY/Y, B/M, O/DR.

| …| Hikari speech, || …|| Yami speech, :…: A person's thoughts, (…) Flashbacks and/or dreams as Adultfanfiction.net has a thing for not keeping the italicizing half the time.

Warnings : N\A

Legend of Red Eyes

Part 6

By Reppa

The three of them took notice that the double doors of the black hall were closed as they passed by, led towards the back offices by Rishid. Jonouchi looked like he was bored out of his gaul, his expression lazy with hands balled in his pockets and a slight slouch to his figure. Aside from him, Yugi and Yami carried themselves well as they went, stepping into Isis' office one by one. The Egyptian woman looked up from the papers she had in hand, a serene smile gracing her face as she slowly stood up from her chair, "I'm very glad that you came after all. And especially with bringing your friend as well. It is unfortunate Seto refused my invitation."

"Yeah, I wonder why…" The blond teen muttered to himself, his chocolate brown eyes looking anywhere but at the Ishtar, signing how little of his interest she held.

As Jonouchi continued his rude behavior, Yami grimaced at him for a moment before turning back to Isis, "He's sorry. Katsuya tends to have a mouth on him. Now, what was it you wanted to talk to us about?"

The dark haired woman spoke naught a word nor did she move as her blue eyes remained glued to Jonouchi, staring at him just long enough that it seemed to agitate the boy as he threw her a glare. Once she knew she now had his attention, Isis finally spoke up, "I wanted to talk to you not only about what happened, but what I had wanted to tell you before said event happened. Come with me." Stepping around the desk, the robed Egyptian began her way out into the hall, pausing to look Katsuya in the eye before she went ahead.

"Creepy chick…" Jonouchi grunted, barely evading a jab aimed at his ribs by the Pharaoh as they followed the woman. As they headed down the hall to wherever she was leading them, he glanced about at the framed art and such adorning the walls before they entered a new room. Suddenly the blond yelled out all but catapulting back to ram against the wall across the hall from the door, "Are you fucking nuts?!?!"

The large obsidian sarcophagus sat in the middle of the room, the object of Jonouchi's start. Yugi pursed his lip a little, keeping his own fair distance from the ancient item as his round eyes turned to Yami, "D-Didn't that thing spew blood and…stuff…?"

"Jonouchi, don't be such a coward, get back in here." The spirit looked back as did his partner at the blond who glared beyond them, straight to Isis. In Yami's opinion, the other was just overreacting was all it was. After all, Isis would insure it was safe before bringing anyone to see it again, he was sure of it. "You know as well as I that she wouldn't let such a mishap happen again."

"Shouldn'ta happened in the first place…" Jonouchi growled softly, slowly edging forward from the wall, reentering the room with a great deal of caution, eyeing the Egyptian coffin wearily, "Hurry up and say what you're gonna say so I can leave already."

All the Ishtar sibling did was nod in understanding, gesturing to the coffin, "The man of which this belonged to used to be a well respected man. But under dire circumstances, he became a fairly hated and feared warrior. He used to serve under you, my Pharaoh. Around 3,000 years ago. Now his corpse and the tomb it rests in are severely cursed."

It seemed she was being fairly general with what she was telling them. Yami's brows rose a little, his narrow eyes looking down to the stone her hand was laid on. He pondered what sort of 'dire circumstances' could have resulted in this. "What happened that he is so cursed?"

"I am afraid it is quite the story, and it would do no justice for myself to tell you when even I don't know all of the details. Which is another part of why I wanted you to come here," She smiled slightly, just faintly as she looked at each of the three for a second before she continued, "The person of which I require you to listen to is in Egypt. And as we must return this, less Seto and your friend remain cursed, I reasoned it would be wise if you came with me to see him."

"Whoa, wait, cursed?" Suddenly, Jonouchi didn't hesitate to rush up before her, brows furrowed as he gave her quite the glare, "Cursed? What'dya mean cursed? How??"

"They're cursed…?" Yugi mumbled to himself, looking perplexed as he looked between Isis and his best friend. His yami stood, there frowning suddenly, not liking the sound of this in the least.

"Yes, cursed, and in what way I am unaware. But I know why, the blood of Red Eyes spattered both you and Seto and entered the wounds you both sustained that night. What would befall, I have no idea, but I am certain you won't like the results…"

Jonouchi scoffed though, looking as if he were ready to laugh at her, shaking his head as he started to leave, "Shit, I ain't going to another country for something you can't even explain to me. I'm failing as is, don't need to be missing any more school. And I have a job I can't afford to miss unless I want to be fired. I'm out of here, no way I'm cursed, man…!" He hardly paid attention as Yugi called for him to come back, taking up a quick pace as he made off.

"That idiot, I swear, sometimes he drives me nuts…" The smaller boy muttered to himself, looking utterly worried. He didn't like the idea of anyone being cursed as he turned back to Isis, "Is there any other way to get it all fixed?"

"No, only to return the sarcophagus. Keep an eye on them both and let me know when the four of you decide to go…"

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Cursed, yeah right…Jonouchi thought to himself, scoffing as he rest his chin into the palm of his hand. It was the next day, and they were in school once again. He didn't really want to be there, but he had to be. With an annoyed sigh, he turned about to strike up some conversation with Malik, who glanced up with a smirk at him, "What's with you? Find something amusing??"

"Maybe. Actually, several things I think." The Egyptian boy chuckled to himself, pen twirling about his slender fingers as he cocked his head, "For one, Isis told me that you're cursed."

"Load of crap." Was the grunt of reply.

"Well, whether it's crap or not, I'm not sure. But after Saturday, you'd think that it'd make a believer out of you where curses were concerned…"

In all actuality, he couldn't argue that as he seemed to start sweating bullets. That was true. A little too true. The coffin had been cursed as everything in that room must have been too, so did that mean it was true concerning him? Jonouchi gulped audibly, not liking the sound of that. Geez, five seconds ago he scoffed at the idea, now he was being a wuss about it. Wonderful.

And when said thought came to mind, Kaiba came to mind. What would he think? He was pretty sure the brunette would disbelieve it just like he had for a moment. The CEO didn't even acknowledge Yami's presence half the time and typically ended up mistaking him for Yugi. But Kaiba couldn't deny what happened at the Museum.

While Jonouchi and Malik were busy with their class time chitchatting, across the room Kaiba sat, pen in hand as he tapped it on the tabletop. His gaze flicked about to take a silent look at each of his classmates, with little better to do. The book he had in hand was one he had read six times already, and you could only read the same one so many times.

:Teen with overactive hormones picking his nose to my left…how disgusting…Girl in front of me adding more makeup than she really needs to…Yugi toying with his cards and the mutt flapping his gums a few seats away...:

The bell trilled loudly, telling them it was time for lunch. Slowly, the class filed out and Kaiba waited in his seat until the next bell rang. He hardly sat in the cafeteria for lunch like the rest of the students, so he spent most of the time in the library. Standing up from his desk, he made his way out behind the throng, intent to take and deposit a few books before going back to the classroom. He headed to his locker, placing the briefcase he carried down onto the tile floor by his feet.

Seto paused in opening his locker, eyes dilating as it seemed the hall teetered to the side. It felt like another dizzy spell, but a little stronger. He shook his head, eyes closed as he steadied himself and reopened his eyes.

Blinking rapidly to readjust his sight, his breath hitched as a sharp pain zipped through his neck. Wide eyed, his hands flew up to his neck to feel an arrowhead protruding, baffled where such a thing could have come from as he choked with panic, fingers struggling to remove it. While his vision blurred and blood seemed to be smearing all over his fingers, several other sharp pangs of pain lanced his upper body; arrows had rammed forcefully into his chest, shoulders, arms, and stomach. His body jerked forward, ramming into the lockers before he limply crumpled to the floor, unaware of the surprised exclamation of nearby students.

As people seemed to gather around, a couple kneeling closer as to check on him, his vision was blurred, the whole of his figure dull with pain. He was still alive though, miraculously so, but most likely by a thread. Distant footsteps were practically like thunder in his ears and a shadow loomed over, with his sight nearly gone, he couldn't make out who or what it was before everything went black.

"What's goin' on?" Yugi glanced up, hearing Jonouchi as the tall blond made his way past him through the crowd, the smaller boy himself worming through some of the others after him and to get a better view of what all the commotion was about. He gasped when he caught sight of Kaiba, the CEO half sprawled against the lockers, twitching and eyes rolled back in his head. Jonouchi's jaw dropped, "What the hell…??"

"He freaked or something…" A crouched teen explained as best as he knew, having been close by when it happened. Next to him, Ryuuzaki had kneeled down to one knee, checking when no one else seemed like they really wanted to.

The Dinosaur duelist leaned back, glancing up at Yugi and Jonouchi as the came to the front, his gaze mainly on the blond with a quirked brow, "Alive. Twitching, but alive. Kaiba doesn't have any some of health or mental issues, does he?"

"Dunno about health, but I bet he's got a mental issue or two…" Katsuya bit his lip for a second, feeling kind of like a jerk for saying that at the moment before he bent down, carefully scooping the brunette up with Ryuuzaki's help. He pointed his chin in a direction down the hall, "Let's get him to the nurse's, I dunno what else to do…"

"Remind me not to have a problem like this with you." The red-brunette snickered, fairly safe from Jonouchi since they had Kaiba in hand, but he was promised a bit of punishment afterwards.

Yugi watched them carry the CEO off down the hall, the rest of the crowd dispersing now that the main show was over with. Slowly, the tri-color haired boy padded towards Kaiba's locker, picking up the bulky briefcase. He was a little thankful it wasn't too heavy and part of him wondered if the other's cell phone was in it or if the teen had it on him. Reluctantly, he opened it to peek in, breathing a sigh as he pulled the phone he found out. Kaiba'd kill him, but technically, this was an emergency.

Quickly, he dialed up a number before putting his ear to the receiver, a composed female voice on the other end, "Seto? I must admit I'm surprised."

:Must have caller ID…: Yugi noted to himself, shaking his head as he spoke up, "No, Isis, it's me. Yugi."

"Ah. I had thought it was Seto for a moment. How is it you're using his phone?"

"Um, something happened and I think it's the curse."

"Quite an obvious deduction I would say…" He could hear her sigh on the other end, and the sound of a creaking which was probably her leaning back in her seat, "Do you know any of the details?"

"No, we just found Kaiba kind of on the floor and looking half dead…" Yugi whined a little, worried beyond belief as he stood up, half dragging the briefcase in one hand as he continued talking to Isis, heading in the direction Jonouchi had gone with Kaiba and Ryuuzaki, "We need to go to Egypt and fix this, what if it gets worse?"

"It will get worse if it isn't rectified…"

End of Chapter 6